Brim Family Outdoor Learning Center
Guide to the Gardens
There are six main gardens contained within the Brim Family Outdoor Learning Center.
1. Meadow
2. Pollinator
3. Fern
4. Pond
5. Living Roof
6. Bioswale
To learn more about the specific native plants in the gardens, view our plant list and explore the links below that contain student-researched descriptions crafted by our third/fourth grade class.
1. Meadow: Clusters of Native plants found in Oregon Meadows & Prairies
🌞 Full Sun, south facing garden
💦 Daily water in summer
- Various Monkey flower colors: red, purple, yellow
- Fiesta Marigold Monkeyflower
- Common Camus
- Bleeding Heart
- Penstemon
- Yarrow
- Iris
- Aster
- Oregon Sunshine
Low shrubs
- Snowberry
- Western Spirea
- Evergreen Huckleberry
2. Pollinator Garden: Clusters of native plants and the milkweed garden supporting pollinators. It also contains 4 trees.
🌞 Full - Part sun with shade from trees, East-West facing garden
💦 Every second day water in summer
- Yarrow
- Fern Volunteers
- Early Blue Violet
Trees
- Vine Maple
3. Fern: Native Shaded ferns with moist soil surrounding pond
🌞 Part sun to shade from evergreen trees, East-West facing garden
💦 Daily water in summer, moist throughout year
- Deer Fern
- Horsetail Fern
- Trillium
- Tiger Lily
- Early Blue Violet
- Tufted Hair Grass
- Fringe Cup
- Pacific Bleeding Heart
Trees
- Willow
- Ponderosa Pine
4. Pond: Native Plants growing in the small pond
🌞 Part sun with shade from trees,
💦 Contains water refreshed with Fern Garden watering
- Wapato
- Rush
5. Living Roof: Native Plants needing low attention & low water growing on living roof.
🌞 Full Sun, octagonal garden
💧 Every 2-3 days in summer
- Wide variety of Succulents
- Windblown and bird-transported volunteers
6. Bioswale: Native Plants best for filtering water and slowing runoff with little watering
🌞 Partial Sun, East-West oriented garden
💧 Little water in summer
- Salal
- Penstemon
- Tufted Hair Grass
- Slough Sedge
- Spreading Rush
- Umbrella Plant
- Western Red Cedar
- Ash